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A southern Indiana cave discovered three years ago that has yielded a trove of ice-age fossils
is open to the public.

Indiana Caverns says the complex about 2 miles south of Corydon is the state’s first show cave
to open in 40 years. The cave was discovered in 2010.

The cave’s discoverers initially thought the cave’s floor was littered with the bones of common
livestock. But the remains turned out to be the fossilized bones of black bears, flat nosed
peccaries, bison and other ice-age mammals that entered the cave through a passage that apparently
closed about 10,000 years ago.

Trail in eastern Kentucky ready for horses, riders

Horseback riders have another route to explore in the mountains of eastern Kentucky thanks to
the completion of the Dawkins Line Rail Trail in Johnson and Magoffin counties.

The trail is 18 miles long.

For people who don’t have a horse, Carter Caves, Cumberland Falls, Kentucky Dam Village, Barren
River and Lake Cumberland state parks have stables where they can pay to go horseback riding.

Coral, algae specimens found near Hawaiian atoll

Scientists made new discoveries while recently diving to deep coral reefs in the remote atolls
of northwestern Hawaii.

The Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument says a research expedition found specimens of
previously unknown deep-water algae. The scientists also brought back the first recorded specimens
of black coral from Johnston Atoll.

The researchers collected fish, coral and algae samples for genetic analysis and searched for
invasive species. Researchers also conducted archaeological surveys of the Howland, a whaling ship
wreck from the late 1800s.